[ros-dev] Mail server maintenance on Tuesday, 6th December

[Colin Finck]

Hi all!

Our IServ system used for mail and mailing lists will be down for 
maintenance on

      TUESDAY, 6TH DECEMBER 2022
      15:00 ~ 17:00 UTC

During this time, you won't be able to send or receive any mails using 
your @reactos.org address. Other servers sending mail to your 
@reactos.org address will usually try again after the maintenance.


This time, the mailing lists may be down for a few more hours though.
Our currently used Mailman 2 mailing list software is no longer 
supported, and we need to upgrade it to Mailman 3.
However, Mailman 3 has been rewritten from scratch, so the upgrade won't 
be straightforward. For instance, Mailman 3 comes with a new web 
interface with new URLs, breaking all existing URLs to mailing list 
posts. The best we can do to keep URLs intact is keeping them in their 
current state forever, with a link to the new archives for new posts 
(like the Python Project did for 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/).
This is probably better than closing mailing lists altogether (like 
GNOME did: 
https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/27/the_gnome_project_is_closing/).

Not that we've been using ros-dev much lately. But it's still the 
primary spot to reach out to all developers. And I assume even more 
people are relying on ros-bugs and ros-diffs for their work. Please 
speak up if you're still using them.


Other services won't be affected by this migration. In particular, all 
means of communication through Mattermost and the website/forums will 
stay live.


Best regards,

Colin Finck